Plant Science Extra Credit - MP3

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Across
  1. 3. The science of ag that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards- including growing veggies, fruits, flowers, and shrubs and trees.
  2. 6. The male element that carries the spores in the fertilization of the egg nucleus in the ovule of a flower. The pollen is borne by the anthers and is usually a yellowish, dustlike mass of separate grains.
  3. 7. System of naming used to classify a group, such as the botanical names of plants.
  4. 9. Sprouting of a seed and beginning of plant growth.
  5. 12. Plants living one year or less. During this time, the plant grows, flowers, produces seeds, and dies.
  6. 13. The capacity of soil or rock for transmitting a fluid. The degree of permeability depends upon the size and shape of the pores, the size, and shape of their interconnections, and the extent of the latter.
  7. 14. Plant having a single cotyledon or seed leaf, such as corn.
Down
  1. 1. The female element of a flower; composed of stigma, style, and ovary.
  2. 2. The first leaf to be developed by the embryo in plant seeds, also called the seed leaf.
  3. 4. Process by which green plants, using chlorophyll and the energy of sunlight, produce carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, and release oxygen
  4. 5. Plant whose seeds have two cotyledons or seed leaves, such as beans.
  5. 6. A plant that lives for more than two years.
  6. 8. The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
  7. 10. The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field–crop production and soil management. The scientific management of land.
  8. 11. Not woody, dying back to the ground each year, such as rhubarb and asparagus (applied to a plant or stems).